From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27464 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt + asymptote Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:23 +0200 Message-ID: <444DD78F.6090307@elvenkind.com> References: <444DCA0D.5080505@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145952159 28526 80.91.229.2 (25 Apr 2006 08:02:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Apr 25 10:02:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FYIVD-00076l-9F for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12D62127CE; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18051-02-5; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25FA127CB; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA2F127CB for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18051-02-4 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [213.84.171.68]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BB230127B3 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2741ABE8 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from glenfiddich.elvenkind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (glenfiddich.elvenkind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05434-01 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.10.0.6] (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by glenfiddich.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA8B18184 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:02:23 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-7.1.20060mdk (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <444DCA0D.5080505@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvenkind.net X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27464 Archived-At: Hans Hagen wrote: > > looks parsable But you see only a small bit of the actual output ;-) From Mojca: >>Whoever is game can start with the diff below, but I'm also not sure >>it's worth it. My ideal figure program: >> >>1. Agnostic about the tex engine (tex/latex/context), easy to integrate >> with any of them. MP is good here. >>2. 3D built in. I've asked this to a wide range of people and have never, ever gotten an answer that is even close to usable for development purposes: What is actually needed to make it easy to do 3D in MP? >>3. Modern color models (cmyk, transparency) cmyk color model is older.much than rgb :-) It would not be hard to add the cmyk color space, but transparancy can not easily be done in PostScript output (it would require overlap removal code, and that is not present at all). >>4. Decent syntax. MP is a bit ghastly, and writing macros is horrible >> esp. with vardefs. I prefer a non-macro language, and asymptote is >> good that way >> True. But then again, you do not _really_ need vardef macros. Cheers, Taco